New Associate AD from UMES

[thebin]

Another underwhelming- no - embarrassing hire out of the AD. We poached the woman's bowling coach (had no idea that was an NCAA sport) from Maryland....eastern shore. Who evidently doesn't have the tact to explain to the media that Gtown was a great opportunity/challenge to accomplish XYZ.... She only managed to say that she wasn't looking for a job but she had to take it because they doubled her salary (savvy negotiating Lee) and as a bonus she is happy she doesn't have to travel with the bowling team anymore because she is getting old. (Her words.)

STUNNING hire Gtown. Way to shoot for the stars. This is the kind of hire I was afraid we could expect from the AD from Cleveland State.

www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120110/SPORTS/201100362

[strummer8526]

If I shook my head as hard as this warrants, I would suffer whiplash.

[bigelephant]

Our team LOVES to bowl - what's the big deal??? HA HA HA!

[thebin]

Let me suggest to Mr. Reed that if you are offering someone a 100% salary increase and they are not on the young side, you are almost certainly hiring an under-qualified candidate. But what is certain is that you are over-paying. At least her expertise is in a sport we don't and won't sponsor and she doesn't sound particularly motivated beyond enjoying the unexpected financial gift that landed in her lap in the absence of anyone else even talking to her about another job as she enters the twilight of her career as a fringe sport coach/admin at a regional satellite university.

[jerseyhoya34]

Trust in staff?

[Filo]

I was going to overlook, for now, the fact that she was a bowling coach hired to do the work of an associate AD. You know, give her some time to see what she can do. But I have to agree with thebin here. Really? She may as well have just come out and said, "Oh boy, it's like I hit the lottery!"

[hoopsmccan]

Well, she is "arguably the most successful women's bowling coach in NCAA history". I've seen plenty of fisticuffs and bloodshed spilled in arguments over that ranking.

hm

[thebin]

The article mentions that she was also some sort of low-level assistant AD at UMES too....I imagine at that level its like coaching football in high school and also having to teach gym to pull your weight.

I'm sure she is a fine person and sounds like a great coach in a sport we don't have any interest in. I just wish we would act like a top 25 (or top 100) university when we made hires. I know we're poor relative to the Dukes and NDs of the world, but are we sure our poverty isn't at least partially a cause as much as an effect of junior varsity decisions such as these by now? Why every time we make a hire does it seem like a pretty good hire for a pretty good dIII school at best?

[strummer8526]

Jan 11, 2012 9:26:33 GMT -5 thebin said:

Let me suggest to Mr. Reed that if you are offering someone a 100% salary increase and they are not on the young side, you are almost certainly hiring an under-qualified candidate. But what is certain is that you are over-paying. At least her expertise is in a sport we don't and won't sponsor and she doesn't sound particularly motivated beyond enjoying the unexpected financial gift that landed in her lap in the absence of anyone else even talking to her about another job as she enters the twilight of her career as a fringe sport coach/admin at a regional satellite university.

When you put it that way...

[williambraskyiii]

Good Lord, her quotes are painful. Another stunning coup for AD Reed!

[Deleted]

Jan 11, 2012 8:35:04 GMT -5 thebin said:

(savvy negotiating Lou)

For the record, AD Reed's name is Lee, ...but this hire does seem to be a walk on the wild side, so the slip is understandable...

[thebin]

Jan 11, 2012 10:28:20 GMT -5 @cam said:

Jan 11, 2012 8:35:04 GMT -5 thebin said:

(savvy negotiating Lou)

For the record, AD Reed's name is Lee, ...but this hire does seem to be a walk on the wild side, so the slip is understandable...

Corrected. It seems we know the upside we can expect from such forward thinking: Oh! Sweet Nuthin'.

(Couldn't resist as it is one of my favorite rock songs of all time.)

[HoyasAreHungry]

to be fair the first paragraph says she is being hired to the same position she filled at UMES...

however that being said....seems to be an underwhelming hire but who the heck knows. All I care about is what's the word on IAC?

[Boz]

If I had known this was open to pretty much anyone with a business card, I would've applied for the job. Dammit!

And I've bowled over a 200 several times on the Wii.

[thebin]

Jan 11, 2012 10:48:16 GMT -5 HoyasAreHungry said:

to be fair the first paragraph says she is being hired to the same position she filled at UMES...

however that being said....seems to be an underwhelming hire but who the heck knows. All I care about is what's the word on IAC?

You can't only care about the IAC and not care that we hire seemingly third-rate associate ADs and pay them double what a much smaller player was paying them toward the end of their career in the absence of any competition for their services. And this one is to have huge fiscal responsibilities apparently. The two are very much related. It just seems like we don't manage to trade on our good name in the slightest outside of the SFS. We seem to consider ourselves a George Mason/American type of institution when we hire in the AD at least.

[reformation]

On the surface it looks pretty questionable, though none of us really knows. Also it obviously also beggs the question re: how the university spends its money/our donations.

[HoyasAreHungry]

Jan 11, 2012 11:23:25 GMT -5 thebin said:

Jan 11, 2012 10:48:16 GMT -5 HoyasAreHungry said:

to be fair the first paragraph says she is being hired to the same position she filled at UMES...

however that being said....seems to be an underwhelming hire but who the heck knows. All I care about is what's the word on IAC?

You can't only care about the IAC and not care that we hire seemingly third-rate associate ADs and pay them double what a much smaller player was paying them toward the end of their career in the absence of any competition for their services. And this one is to have huge fiscal responsibilities apparently. The two are very much related. It just seems like we don't manage to trade on our good name in the slightest outside of the SFS. We seem to consider ourselves a George Mason/American type of institution when we hire in the AD at least.

Ok fair enough. No I am not happy with the current administration in general. Yes this may, again MAY, speak to a even bigger problem (however that is yet to be seen). The IAC is just its biggest test right now.

[RusskyHoya]

Glass half full view:

Brummell, who currently resides in Salisbury, Md., holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Salisbury University, where she was a member of the volleyball program.

Brummell is in her fourth year as the Associate Athletic Director for Budgeting and Fiscal Operations and as Senior Woman Administrator at UMES. She is responsible for overseeing the entire athletic budget, purchases and team travel. As SWA and Title IX coordinator, she ensures that the Department of Athletics operates within the guiding principles of the gender equity requirements of Title IX.

She was doing all this while simultaneously running a program as head coach, with all that that entails. Yes, it's women's bowling, but still - she's won as many NCAA titles in her time there (2) as Georgetown has won in its entire history in all sports combined, and has been recognized by her peers as National Coach of the Year twice. Also, the fact that "her 2008 National Championship was the first women's title for a Historically Black College of University (HBCU)" makes me think that she has some pretty good experience with operating in a fiscally- and institutionally-constrained environment. It ain't easy to recruit to HBCU's, or operate there, and the situation in Maryland is such that the state's four HBCU's are suing the Maryland Higher Education Commission over structural and funding inequalities.

I have no idea what kind of worker, administrator, colleague, etc. she is - and I'm guessing nobody here does either. Absent that, I think it would be best to reserve judgment. You would think that if any fanbase would know not to put too much stock into pedigree, it would be this one. What was Pops' pedigree like when he was hired? By contrast, Bernie Muir came from Brown and Notre Dame. How'd that turn out?

[SFHoya99]

I hesitate to judge an individual on the circumstances and not on the person, but this just looks awful. It feels like Lee Reed, Part II -- the University doesn't actually want someone with drive or ambition because that rocks the boat.

Why do I feel like Muir agitated so much to actually, do things, that the University simply is hiring people who won't annoy DeGioia with those pesky requests to get things done?

[thebin]

Jan 11, 2012 11:56:19 GMT -5 RusskyHoya said:

Glass half full view:

Brummell, who currently resides in Salisbury, Md., holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Salisbury University, where she was a member of the volleyball program.

Brummell is in her fourth year as the Associate Athletic Director for Budgeting and Fiscal Operations and as Senior Woman Administrator at UMES. She is responsible for overseeing the entire athletic budget, purchases and team travel. As SWA and Title IX coordinator, she ensures that the Department of Athletics operates within the guiding principles of the gender equity requirements of Title IX.

She was doing all this while simultaneously running a program as head coach, with all that that entails. Yes, it's women's bowling, but still - she's won as many NCAA titles in her time there (2) as Georgetown has won in its entire history in all sports combined, and has been recognized by her peers as National Coach of the Year twice. Also, the fact that "her 2008 National Championship was the first women's title for a Historically Black College of University (HBCU)" makes me think that she has some pretty good experience with operating in a fiscally- and institutionally-constrained environment. It ain't easy to recruit to HBCU's, or operate there, and the situation in Maryland is such that the state's four HBCU's are suing the Maryland Higher Education Commission over structural and funding inequalities.

I have no idea what kind of worker, administrator, colleague, etc. she is - and I'm guessing nobody here does either. Absent that, I think it would be best to reserve judgment. You would think that if any fanbase would know not to put too much stock into pedigree, it would be this one. What was Pops' pedigree like when he was hired? By contrast, Bernie Muir came from Brown and Notre Dame. How'd that turn out?

I'm tired of the "JTII came from nowhere" rationale. Right...and he then built us a pedigree to be very proud of- can we use that? Because if you don't use it, you lose it. We could just keep pretending we are nobody and starting from scratch every 30 years, but I'm not sure that's the most efficient way to get back the final four, get/stay in a major athletic conference, etc.

I'm sorry Russky but I'm tired of reserving judgement on our Mickey Mouse AD hires. If they were a level or two below where I would expect pier insitutions to be, maybe...but they seem to be 3-4 levels below.